I've taken jars from SDK,bi-server,report-designer, saxon 9, xmlunit, etc ---> all that is needed to compile the engine
the list is big, if y need me to post it ill do it

any help would be appreciated

org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.resourceloader.ContentNotRecognizedException: None of the selected factories was able to handle the given data: ResourceKey{schema=org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.resourceloader.loader.URLResourceLoader, identifier=file:/C:/Users/bootcamp/Documents/workspace/QBIRenderEngine/bin/org/pentaho/reporting/engine/classic/core/metadata/meta-elements.xml, factoryParameters={}, parent=null}
at org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.resourceloader.DefaultResourceManagerBackend.create(DefaultResourceManagerBackend.java:294)
at org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.resourceloader.ResourceManager.create(ResourceManager.java:434)
at org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.resourceloader.ResourceManager.create(ResourceManager.java:370)
at org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.resourceloader.ResourceManager.createDirectly(ResourceManager.java:207)
at org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.metadata.ElementTypeRegistry.registerFromXml(ElementTypeRegistry.java:68)
at org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.metadata.ElementMetaDataParser.initializeElementMetaData(ElementMetaDataParser.java:73)
at org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.ClassicEngineCoreModule.initialize(ClassicEngineCoreModule.java:95)
at org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.base.boot.PackageState.initialize(PackageState.java:184)
at org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.base.boot.PackageManager.initializeModules(PackageManager.java:245)
at org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.ClassicEngineBoot.performBoot(ClassicEngineBoot.java:346)
at org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.base.boot.AbstractBoot.start(AbstractBoot.java:197)
at org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.samples.Prueba.main(Prueba.java:12)
DEBUG Failed:
java.io.IOException: Error: Could not parse the element meta-data description file
at org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.metadata.ElementTypeRegistry.registerFromXml(ElementTypeRegistry.java:80)
at org.pentaho.reporting.engine.classic.core.metadata.ElementMetaDataParser.initializeElementMetaData(ElementMetaDataParser.java:73)

First: Remove the bi-server and saxon and all other funny stuff from your classpath and start with a clean project containing only the SDK.
The engine's SDK comes a downloader for with all libraries included - all you need to do is run "ant resolve" to download them.